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Bowmanville man training for ice rescue dies in Hanover, Ont.

A Bowmanville man training for winter rescue died Sunday afternoon in southwestern Ontario after being submerged under ice for 15 minutes, police said.

Police from Hanover, Ont., said officers and firefighters responded to the incident at about 1 p.m. at the Saugeen River near 7th Ave. after reports of a man trapped under the ice in “frigid and fast-flowing” water.

Paramedics then rushed the man to the hospital, where emergency workers treated the man for “several hours” before he was pronounced dead, police said in a statement Sunday night.

Police said the man was in a training program for ice and water rescue by a private firm from Newmarket.

“He was training with 11 other students and one instructor at the time of the accident,” they said.

Police have identified the man as Adam Robert Brunt, 30, and added that many of those students were looking to pursue careers as firefighters.

“The Hanover Police Service continues the investigation with assistance from the coroner's office and investigators with the Ministry of Labour,” police said.

A post-mortem examination is scheduled to take place on Monday in nearby London, Ont.

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